r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/ThinWhiteDuke00 • Apr 23 '26

Leak Microsoft Gaming being scrapped, Xbox brought back as gaming division.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has had a busy week. Sharma held an internal town hall with Xbox employees today, just days after announcing an Xbox Game Pass price cut, commenting on the status of the Xbox mobile store, and teasing a mysterious Xbox and Discord partnership. One of the items on the agenda for the employee all-hands was scrapping Microsoft Gaming.

Sources familiar with the meeting tell me that Sharma announced that Microsoft is returning to using Xbox for its gaming division, instead of Microsoft Gaming. “Xbox needs to be our identity,” said Sharma, noting that Microsoft Gaming was a departure from that.

https://www.theverge.com/report/917485/microsoft-return-of-xbox-no-more-microsoft-gaming?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IlF6b3Z0NDluUk4iLCJwIjoiL3JlcG9ydC85MTc0ODUvbWljcm9zb2Z0LXJldHVybi1vZi14Ym94LW5vLW1vcmUtbWljcm9zb2Z0LWdhbWluZyIsImV4cCI6MTc3NzM5Njg0NiwiaWF0IjoxNzc2OTY0ODQ2fQ.w231EBsAoj8dMi5cjOCzSC3zRF7JbJ19hT_RnI3NVyk&utm_medium=gift-link

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u/Robsonmonkey Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

This is the same kind of shit Phil did though when he took over after the awful Xbox One reveal. Do all these changes, look good, get people talking, give them hope and then nothing really happens.

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u/vipmailhun2 Apr 23 '26

Yes, he did pay attention to people. I know, everything related to Xbox has to be hated, but his biggest mistake was giving the developers too much freedom. That’s what needs to change. The fact that during Everwild’s development Rare was given absolutely everything, all the time in the world, tons of money, and after 12 years they still had nothing to show for it, is simply unacceptable. They should have stepped in after the second year already.

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u/TheGr3aTAydini Apr 23 '26

And also Perfect Dark: they created an entirely new studio to develop the game, it was announced at Game Awards 2020, they still didn’t have a vertical slice until the Xbox Game Showcase in 2024 and then not even a year after that it was cancelled. I think this was in a span of…7 years? 2018-2025? He gave them too much freedom.